Feefawfum sound like a band that is working at musical cross-purposes but with great precision on “So Capable.” The dissonant vocals shouldn’t work but do because the song seems to be one about the breakdown of the established social order when it’s stressed. There is a frantic quality to the collision of guitar, drums and bass that is reminiscent of The Fall gone even more mad or like Preoccupations before the name change at its most unhinged. Guitars sometimes sound like horns when the chords ring out in a shifting sustain. But the whole time it feels like the whole thing could call over like when Protomartyr goes off its own rails into the realm of borderline chaos but reeling it back in with an intensity of feeling that imbues the song with a heightened mood of thrilling tentativeness that finally releases that nervous energy in the end. Listen to “So Capable” on Spotify, follow Feefawfum at the links below and look for the full length Feefawfum album 100 due out on digital and vinyl September 8, 2023.
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